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There are many places here in Cambodia and SEA that will try and sell you a fake / look-alike phone. Some businesses knowingly some unknowingly.
Here is some tips to help you buy an original phone.
IPhone - This one is easy.
Go to the app store.
If it loads the Iphone app store it is real.
If it loads the Google Play Store it is fake.
It is currently impossible to run a fake IOS all fake Iphones run Android with the skin changed to look like IOS.
Android - This is a little more complicated but still easy enough.
Download the Geekbench app onto the phone you are looking to buy.
Then run the Geekbench Benchmark test. It can take from 5-15 minutes to run the test.
Take note of the resulting score.
Check this score on the Geekbench website.
If the score is nearly the same the phone is real.
If the score is way off the phone is fake.
Example:
Real Samsung note 8 Score is 1800 single core 6000 multi core
Fake Samsung note 8 score is 421 single core 1126 multi core
The fake / knockoff phones are made to look like the original not to perform like it. You can't go by look alone some of the fakes are just too good. Just watch some YouTube videos and you will see.
If you want to buy a fake phone then the price generally seems to be 10% of the original phone's price.
Game on for tech champion
Mon, 9 September 2013
Chloe Cann
Softly spoken and with a self-effacing demeanour, you might not realise that Ear Uy (otherwise known as Louis) is a man very much in demand.
With invitations to attend technology conferences and exhibitions from Tokyo to the US embassy in Phnom Penh, and all the way to America’s Silicon Valley – all while running Cambodia’s first game development studio – Louis certainly has enough to keep him occupied. And that’s just his schedule for the next two months.
Louis’ visit to the States was only added to his bursting agenda two weekends ago, when he was selected as one of five winners of DEMO ASEAN 2013.
The two-day event, which took place in Ho Chi Minh, seeks to connect IT and tech entrepreneurs with investors, and to garner exposure for exciting new products within the industry.
Seeing the informative post by Orange Dragon re a free number and cheap calls to USA has prompted me to tell you how I handle calls from Oz.
I run a computer help desk and I have customers all over Australia so it's important that I can be easily reached, wherever I am in the world.
For many years I had 4 Skype numbers in each of Adelaide, Melbourne, Sydney and Brisbane at a flat out cost of $24 per 1/4 each. So 4 x $24 x 4 = $384 per year or $32 per month plus call costs.
I dropped the Skype deal last year in favor of a deal with Telecube .
They give me up to 10 Australia wide 1300 number which terminate wherever I like (yes, in Cambodia or wherever) for $5.50 per month consumeable (so the first $5.50 worth of calls are free).
The termination number can have a roll over number and then that number can also have a roll over number.
This means that calls to any of my 1300 numbers will first ring the VOIP phone on my desk.
If I don't answer within 10 seconds, it rings my mobile number. If that doesn't answer it will ring another number (at the moment, my Cambodian sim)
I use my setup mainly for business but I reckon it would be ideal for family and friends too.
With the ten available 1300 numbers, you could assign one to mum and dad, two to your best buddy, three to.......and so on.
All 10 can have a different ring and caller ID.
From Phnom Penh Post
Friday 14th September 2012
By Anne Renzenbrink
Apple needs to do more than revamp its iPhone to maintain a leading status on the smartphone market, according to the global independent analyst firm Ovum.
Ovum predicts Apple’s new iPhone, the iPhone 5, will be the company’s most successful smartphone. But without redesigning its mobile operating system iOS and the underlying software platform within the next two years, Ovum predicts Apple will be in a similar position to Nokia and RIM, both confronted with outdated smartphone platforms.
He said right now, they sell about two or three Samsung SIII per day, compared to only one iPhone 4S per week.
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